Defending the Faith

Angela Ranson earned her doctorate from the University of York in 2014. She has had articles published in Sin and Salvation in Reformation England and Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640.André A. Gazal teaches church history at North Greenville University and is the author of Scripture and Royal Supremacy in Tudor England: The Use of Old Testament Historical Narrative.Sarah Bastow is Head of History at the University of Huddersfield and the author of The Catholic Gentry of Yorkshire, 1536–1642: Resistance and Accommodation.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: John Jewel and the Invention of the Church in EnglandLucy Woodring1. John Jewel’s Early Life: Developing a Community of ReformersAngela RansonPart I: John Jewel as Theologian, Polemicist, and Apologist2. The Homiletical Theologian: Jewel’s Self-Identity as Preacher of the WordAndré A. Gazal3. John Jewel at Paul’s Cross: A Culture of Persuasion and England’s Emerging Public SphereTorrance Kirby4. “Silence Is a Fine Jewel for a Woman”: Anne Cooke Bacon, Jewel’s Apology, and Reformed Women’s PublicationsAlice Ferron5. “A Crime So Heinous”: The Concept of Heresy in John Jewel’s Apology of the Church of EnglandAndré A. Gazal6. An Apology of the Church of England’s CathedralsIan Atherton7. The Jewel-Harding Controversy: Defending the ChampionAngela Ranson8. Defending the Defender of the Faith: The Use of History in Responses to Queen Elizabeth’s ExcommunicationAislinn MullerPart II: The Impact and Legacy of John Jewel9. Moses the Magistrate: The Mosaic Theological Imaginaries of John Jewel and Richard Hooker in Elizabethan ApologeticsPaul Dominiak10. The Use and Abuse of John Jewel in Richard Hooker’s Defense of the English ChurchW. Bradford Littlejohn11. Redefining Unity in the Jacobean Church: The Legacy of John JewelAngela Ranson12. Edwin Sandys and the Defense of the FaithSarah Bastow13. Defense, Dialectic, and Dialogue: The Role of the Antagonist in the English ChurchJoshua Rodda14. A Multifaceted Jewel: English Episcopacy, Ignatian Authenticity, and the Rise of Critical Patristic ScholarshipPaul A. Hartog15. Defending Reformation Anglicanism: The Bishop Jewel Society at Oxford University, 1947-1975Andrew AtherstoneAppendix: The Publications of the Jewel-Harding Controversy, 1560-1640Selected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“Although John Jewel was an influential figure in the English church, relatively little else has been written about him. Gary W. Jenkins’s 2006 biography provided an important update of J. E. Booty’s 1963 work, but otherwise John Jewel’s significance in the post-Reformation church has been largely ignored. This collection of essays, which grew out of a conference in 2014 marking the 450th anniversary of the publication of Jewel’s Apology for the Church of England, provides a remedy to that.”—Rosamund Oates Cambridge Journal of British Studies